Suspended deputy commissioner of police, Abba Kyari who was remanded in the Kuje prison for drug dealings has escaped and been murdered by aggrieved inmates who accused Kyari of insecurity in bribe-for-release deals when in active service. This development has made the Kuje prison official consider moving Kyari to the custody of the State Security Service detention facility for safekeeping.
Information from internal documents revealed by a prison official that Kyari was attacked 4th of May, stating his attackers were mostly those in prison for drug offenses and were about one hundred and ninety of them.
The Kuje attackers claimed Mr. Kyari prosecuted them despite taking bribes from them, our sources said. One of the sources, a state investigator and intelligence officer, described Mr. Kyari as a “dodgy criminal.”
Mr. Kyari has not been convicted of any crime and has said he is innocent of the allegations for which he has been charged.
Quoting the inmates, our sources said Mr. Kyari was “eliminating smaller (drug) dealers to clear the field for Afam Ukatu,” a suspected billionaire drug baron allegedly behind N3 billion Tramadol deal linked to Mr. Kyari.
“Inmates claimed that upon arrest, Abba Kyari demanded bribes to kill the case, then still prosecuted them,” a Kuje prison source who accessed the testimonies of the aggrieved inmates, said.
The spokesperson for the Nigerian Correction Service, Francis Enobore, denied the attack on Mr. Kyari. Although, a reliable source confirmed the attack from officials with direct knowledge of it and the service’s internal documents.
According to our sources, Mr. Kyari was rescued by officials and has since been kept in an isolated cell “under heavy protection where no one sees him for fear of attack or poisoning.”
